Stefan Schnorr (54) has been working at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy since March 2010, and has been heading the department “Digital and innovation politics” since April 2015. Previously, he had worked in several other departments of the Federal Minstry for Economic Affairs. Mr Schnorr started his professional jurist career as an administrative judge in Trier; after that he headed public and press relations in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice from 1994 to 2001. In 2001, he switched to the Rhineland-Palatinate state representation office for the Federal Republic and the EU in Berlin, where he initially served as head of the legal secretariat and later assumed the coordination of the Federal Council as deputy head of the federal affairs department. From 2009 to March 2010, he headed the Lower Saxony state representation office for the Federal Republic in Berlin.